lassus

English

Noun

lassus

1. plural of lassu

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *lh₁d-to-s, verbal adjective from the root *leh₁d- (“to be tired”) +‎ *-tós. Compare Proto-Germanic *lataz (“slow, lazy”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlas.sus/, [ˈɫ̪äs̠ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlas.sus/, [ˈläsːus]

Adjective

lassus (feminine lassa, neuter lassum, comparative lassior, superlative lassissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. weary, faint, tired
2. exhausted, used up

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	lassus	lassa	lassum		lassī	lassae	lassa
Genitive	lassī	lassae	lassī		lassōrum	lassārum	lassōrum
Dative	lassō		lassō		lassīs
Accusative	lassum	lassam	lassum		lassōs	lassās	lassa
Ablative	lassō	lassā	lassō		lassīs
Vocative	lasse	lassa	lassum		lassī	lassae	lassa

Derived terms

• lassescō
• lassitūdō
• lassulus
• lassō

 

Related terms

• lēnis (“soft”)
• lētum (“death, ruin”)

Descendants

• Catalan: llas, las
• French: las
• Galician: laso
• Italian: lasso
• Portuguese: lasso
• Spanish: laso

Further reading

• “lassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lassus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lassus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lassus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle French

Etymology

Old French lassus, from la (“there”) +‎ sus (“upon; on top of”).

Preposition

lassus

1. up there

References

• lassus on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (lassus)